The Ambler Gazette 19020206

              vol xx.-no en i i ml t labor other d ameri place fof olliflei politic of an e dents state but cei ten an t and th not ment amble amblkk pa february 0 1ho2 norristown letter weekly review of recent happenings by old friend i.nan of •! r.0,000 knvnrril jfiimlinrliir the flection itallota — two 8ml fnmnih li psrtment of commerce nd l.«li»r v»l ley fore park norristown l'a feb 3 1002 at the coining february election we aro to vote for or against a new loan of 1150,000 for public improvement this shows the rapid expnnsion of the borough into the wide holds around us now opened up to buildings of every variety,necessitatingan immense amount of grading the erection of now sewers and all the appurtenances of a full fledged town like an enterprising manufacturing firm when ita business increases it finds it essential to expend vast tarns of money to provide build ings machinery and appliances to koap place with and accommodate tho aug mentation of manufacturers and trade many a manufacturer hns expended 150,000 and much more to expand ti in own business operations therefore what is that bum for public improve ments in a prosperous borough like norristown with a population of 30 000 souls the j d nowbold & cotn panys iron and machine worka turn out engines for all paits of our country and into foreign lands gresh sends cigars from his big factories here to all parts of the tinited states bambo and regar hosiery norrietown wire com pasv screen works glass company woolen company oibboiir boiler manu factory adam scheidt brewing com pany morgan brick manufacturing company oil works grater bodey lum ber company taubel's hosiery key stone hosiery mcmichall and wild man machine manufactory quaker city manufacturing company coral rug manufactory scatchara wool goods factory norristown hosiery company consumers ice company merchants ice company c rit tollhouse & sons machinists ivins diclz & metzgar carpets edw 8 adams hosiery and underwear george w mott woolen goods s sternberger fc company iliirts m n steppacher & bros shirts tia plate company granite company keller bros pottery ; manyille pipe covering cornpauy fowler radial works norway tack works penn ti company axe-handle manufacture company norristown rolling mill milling company stony creek millin company clipper lawn mowing con*jj pany isaac n coervalk cigar factory john t pyc.r stone company and the wyoming arid kureka nulls — all in suc cessful operation send their wares and merchandise throughout all parts of t world these give yon some idea the progress growth and prosperity norristown in 1902 in the confusion of public law of the newspapers are ditcuagi ' " or not t too lie coil imis,th bent on hutches would where wouldo the rtpw " ing milita 1200 tection irtmeotjof con»mere and tnko bim.fliis from tln fcents and most of all for | makes a nnw office a fat an politician increase of nnlinal principle in our tenet to hear after while have two aspintunl presi vice preiidenl for each } would not be of flny imp las ornamental as » lien or and quite as expensive d satisfy the regi me why et office on the depart by we have a war depnrt t the other side have one mild not do anything else reprimands to the ind bppers and kindred classes rice purposed and shooting [ man like william penn ie one for this place but ff we find him scldey cimjp of the arrest eleotri destro not purpi have of p spot ecnti to be the all false knows horsham road question mr h p nckean writes as a candi date for supervisor gazette 1.25 a year o wlmlo bltllb standpoint ex isting i.nw an oiuim ¦!•• in many reivent inin sunmi vlow of the from iim i nm neit r»in toning roads it is folly to simply held atone on the bed nnd resort to bracking them by hand ii is a p>li pirnl impossibility to break our local e smaller than a three-inrli cube by tin means whereas our best authorities tlmt nothing larger thnn one and oni half inch should be used mr a j vflait than whom there is a no mo e intelligent road builder recom mends placing on a well-prepared dirt roa 1)''<i six inches of one and one-half d forge park <* business is ngress,:and an effort id be have it made a national by an appropriation of that purpose some pro be thrown around the old t week mr jenkins one issioners was compelled to carelees engineers for an for cutting down and land on the hill is jbahle except for memorial i valley forge ought to need in and put in a state lti"i 70 years ago it is a cites thejnoblest patriotic a proper monument ought there as an educator to the old inhabitants have red there is so much y nowadays that no one to believe i can point out migrant stances where our very ' his torical ihbety so called have com mitted dffenech against the truth of his tory < ktown council was guilty of a ¦ — le effort in this direction in they placed the sign on the mlier which reads city ball on the side of the great le the words market house ppears but contrary to truth common council in one select council in another i have no such institutions ildisli apishness — but worse ft denihl of truth old friend ii road aie stannard has brightened tip agon with a coat of mint rinton reports that he is not i of removing from the wid petty as we reported in a re but it is likely he will go to iinty t'reas will hold a public sale i of his farming effects and ive therefrom early in the mre george w mclaugblin home visited here last week mcttierson has been visiting ny friends id bridgeport fittaeramjil spending tome t!#tm sprinahotise pa feb 1 l«02 editor ambler gazette dear sir having received the nom ination for supervisor by the republican voters of horshain township i desire to express a few views on the subject through your far-reaching paper i think that very few people are aware of the difficulties which confront a supervisor in a farming district we who make our home in the country appreciate how hard it is to coax thn farm to pay expenses notwithstanding what the city newspapers tell us of the good times ami the high prices of farm ftroducts consequently we are very oath to authorize any increase in otir tiixcp no matter how small it may be even though by a small addition to our tax we might have vastly better roads which would mean that we could get our products to market niickeiiand with less wear and tear to our wagons and horses and our own tempers one grave obstacle to any improve ment is the existing law which only permits the supervisor to be elected for one year we all know how nearly im possible it is to make any improvement in one year especially when thtro is little to work with in the beginning if the supervisor were elected for say three years ho could so lay out his work as to make it consecutive doing a little here adding to it each year but under the present system a new man may come in and entirely give up the work his predecessor etartud the principal difficulty which the supervisor must face is the absolute lack of ready cash he ie elected to an office with a practically empty cash box for in the spring tho supervisor lays his taxes anil collects to pay the bills for the work done the preceding year consequent ly for any work he orders done outside of working off taxi's for which no money changes hands or for any material bought the supervisor must personally ' bank for the township if ho is lucky enough to have a bank account or else must give his note as supervisor ami borrow the money for needed im provements on which of comse the township must pay interest this is poor business proposition the sybtein of " working-out taxes was no doubt the best one hundred years ago and is still to a certain ex tent necessary in inaccessible parts of the united states where money is uff known and goods are dealt in hy trad1 but within 20 miles of a city the size philadelphia the system would seem have outlived its usefulness it is w to examine the assessor's books and note the amount of property on inq am ba an g y feet-wide is ample for ordinary country ror is t the same time were there funds avail ii i i|i for the puproso i am not in fa f i ll d f i id htone rolling and watering it well then not more thnn one and one inches of binder and again rolling watering he also says that 13 id i l of stoning all roads for i consider tlm for eight months of the year a dirt is va»tly to be preferred to drive and fills all requirements and ing the wet and muddy season if y tliirdroad running each way were macadamized it would he ample wants of all i remain dear sir very truly yours henry p mekean roajd ovi in ev w fortli ev s li seaslioles delivered an in tel stint lceture in the baptist church on thursday evening he at one time liv i<l in ambler and is descended from a ( erman family which enrly hottled in tli neighborhood of pennsburg mont gomery county he graduated from nevton theological seminary mass hi i lirst church wag in dallas texas an lie is now pastor of a baptist oil rch in gennantown oth parties have made their nomi nations for local officers but so far tli re does not appenr any marked or oxcitinit interest in the coming election the complexion of council the ensuing year in of gome consequence as upon it defends the character of the dealings with the lehigh valley traction com parly concerning tho alterations of its track giiage tin banquet given nt hotel norwood on&hureday evening last was attended bj 16 members of the borough govern ment including council and the board uf health iviv-al meetings are being continued in both evangelical churches and also in.|h'e methodist church building association will erect w houses on walnut street in heaet end of town are expectations that a trolley be built from new hope to own the coming season and from own to lansdale during 11)03 if er the company has obtained pf way to the west end of the blace from the borough council vent in the winter lecture course fur on the 18th of february per mock trail will be held hure ne in the future by the golden when we get the new station doylestown tracks made to brth of it we can have safetv i main street as you have in most any arrangement is pre sto the fence between tracks as b at jeukintown and ulcuside successful institution ambler b & l association hears favorable report attnr tli hnlon a public meeting ik held in ambler opnra honiie tn promote an itoolallon work in general adiiremte by prominent men a meeting of the directors of the ambler building a loan association whs held on saturday evening at which time the annual report was adopted pre paratory to submitting it to the share holders at the annual meeting to be held next saturday it was also agreed to recommend the insuing of a new series of stock which will no doubt be done as quite a number of persons have expressed a desire in subscribe shares no entrance fee will be charged on new stock at the annual meeting on the above named date ii directors will be chosen from the following candidates samuel a faust j e leech benjamin p wertsner frank shuggard le'orge ruch joseph shoemaker james mey ers mathias dettra joseph a buclinn an tener langstroth charles jones frank weber hillery vandegrift samuel keown and f b streeper after the meeting a lunch was served to the stockholders and several members of the wissnhickon building & loan as sociation numbering 23 in nil speech es were made by messrs broun and paist at the close of the session a public meeting was held in ambler opera house and despite the inclement weath er an interested audience was in attend ance inclu ling representatives of the ambler nnd the wissuhickon associa tions mr william 0 walker secre tary of the ambler building & loan as sociation in the absence of the presi dent mr j w lutz acted as chair man of the meeting and in a few in troductory words stated that the pur pose of the meeting was to promote the work of building and loan associations in a general way he mentiontjd the two local associations as being managed on a mud financial basis m j brown secretary of the build ing & loan association league of pennsylvania and who edits the build ing and loan association columns of the philadelphia ledger was the first speaker he complimented hon james clarenav of philadelphia.for hia active work in the house of assembly at ilar risburf in behalf of the building asso caitions of the state in raving them from taxation in a statistical vein ho mentioned the 80,000 shareholders in philadelphia alone and stated that the citpital in the associations in that city exceeds that of the national batiks he read extracts from ciicu instances which had come under his own iences showing how in all cusee t the agency of building association sons had been helped and aided ' curing their own homes he , e cised the fact that a man shooldj specially of u*e to borrowers for by neitns of email payments often the rofits resulting from the money lior owed he in enabled to pay back to the society without any embarrassment and o retain the earn first advanced i'eo ilc an a rule me too anxious to draw out they take a few shares and pay h for a time then they see pome flittering speculating scheme draw out heir money nnd buy stock — very often o their sorrow and financial embarrass ment leave your money in the so ciety he urged all stockholders to at end tho meetings of the society at all iossil)lo times and study tho workings of a healthy building and loan many persons send their dues and books by other members and know nothing about what is going on and feel no interest whatever in what is being done his own society has stopped thin plan and now ovory shareholder pays his own dues and attends all tho meetings so far ns possible he further urged that the local societies be given the preference over outside agencies that may invade the local territory from time to time in conclusion mr walker thanked the speakers for the information conveyed and tho audience in giving such tindi vl ed attention glenside and around republican club oricanlzeil in chelten ham church notes tolephono activi ty miscellaneous iteinn of ftevrn the february issue of the sentinel was wailed monday the keystone telephone company i count rnetiiifj a line iu tliih vicinity william mcallister returned home lust thursday from an extended stav with his sister at allentown about 30 young folks of the vicinity enjoyed the coasting on church road monday evening the home of p maurice conard and wife was brightened by the arrival of a baby girl on tuesday of last week the ushcra association of carniel presbyterian church will hold their niontfily meeting friday evening rev frank rurdick of philadelphia will have charge of the services at the baptist mission next sunday evening the delaware & atlantic telephono nnd telegraph companv has a large force of men at work extending the line from edge hill to oreland miss lillian c may of oak park wbs a favorite ueet at the midwinter dinner-dancd at the cheltenham mili tary academy ogontz last friday even ing the christian endeavor society of curnipl presbjterian church conducted a missionary service last sunday after noon mr horace 1 beider of lans dale made an interesting ad drees mr carey of carey bros wall pa per manufacturer of philadelphia has purchased the thomas smith mansion and 10 acres of ground on the glenbide farm tract and w'1 make it his summer residence the 20th anniversary of carmel pres byterian church and 25th anniversary of ' e sunday school^conntrted with the ofw tickets inmmttcfeia che mandates are ruthlessly disregarded and teldom literally and seriously obeyed we may take it for granted that some means will be found to circumvent its mandates in the future as in the past the contrivance for numbering the bal lots was invented by that class of hon est but not very philosophical or prac tical reformers who conceived the idea that honesty can be secured by legisla tion and constitutional mandates and sanctions the numbering is one awk ward method of accomplishing honesty the good men who supported it thought they bad made a discoveiy by which fraud especially in false presentation oonld be detected each man who vot ed could take his number and make a memorandum of it and then would be armed with corroborative evidence as to how and for whom he voted in case of a contest the same class who asked for this law made every effort to adopt the amendment which leaves it out but legislation has followed the consti tution of 1873 which is not necessarily repealed though much of it may be rendered absolete and inoperative by the new amendment justice agnew says a new constitutional amendment must be put into operation by appropri ate legislation the supreme court of pennsylvania justice agnew writing the opinion set aside a portion of the con stitutional provisions of 1873 before the election was held on its adoption per haps the best thing we can do is to let the state get into as much confusion as possible so as to bring the people to a realization that the state is governed too much that it is law-ridden with the lawless science of law the funeral of miss elizabeth k eg bert was largely attended here on wed nesday by relatives and friends not withstanding the snow — men like chalkley styer facing it all to attend she belonged to a very ancient numer ous and respectable family who sprang from lawrence egbert who 100 years ago owned the large plantation on the sandy hill road in plymouth township now divided by hallowed avenue for many years after the death of lawrence egbert the home of uncle billy hallowed and after him caleb h hul lowell the famous horse dealer a sad assemblage attended the funeral rites over the remains of mies strasa burger on friday morning him was the charming daughter of ex-district attorney jacob a strassburgnr she had gone to paris in company with her mother to be educated in the higher arts of music and painting and while abroad wai taken ill had a serious operation performed and died in paris she was about 20 years of age and the pride of tho family bho had many friends at home and abroad and there ia a void in the society in which she used to move that can not be supplied the brilliant career that opened before her is dosed — to her and to all of us it seems that we are to have a new cabinet officer and hit domain in to be although ftiflng for ereml weeks the end came very unexpectedly john o'donnell lias removed from the hobeneack farm to his nek house at blue bell « mr nortaan w jauncey of babylon l i visited his parents at this place on saturday lizzie moore is visiting in bridgeport this week miss emma dubree ia confined to the house with a had cold j b clark will remain this year on the ashbach property and not remove therefrom the place will be exten sively improved throughout william moore our barber has gone out of business and secured a position in the ambler chemical works the hallman houses are fant disap pearing and soon will be no more one is already down and the other crumb ling away our sporting club and sharpshooters are holding themselves in readinoei for hiram mcoool's shoot at the inn on saturday percy c clark will remove to glen side instead of philadelphia in the spring 	 maw britain mill i>eitr<iy»d escaping gasoline used to operate an engine in the engine room of alvin bissey's mill at new britain was ignit ed on friday evening about 7 o'clock by a stove and despite heroic efforts the building and almost all its contents were destroyed the loss will approxi mate about 3000 uninsured mr bissev and charles homer an employe discovered the fire in the boil er room and for some minutes made futile efforts to subdue it with the fire extinguisher and bags the oil spread radidly over the floor and in an in stant the who'.e building was a mess of flames neighbors soon arrived on the scene and worked desperately an act that was heroic in its daring was per formed by john hoblbian and alvin bissey who at the risk of their lives went up to a smoking gasoline tank and rolled it away in the snow another large tank nearby was saved by john hohlbain and lewis haldemao who cut the pipe that connected it with the engine room which was a seething mass of fire others secured shovels ana bags and saved about 100 worth of feed the undersigned having left the mer cer home to seek his fortune solicits your patronage and will exchange books old and new for money i will find books you have been unable to nnd and will get new books at cut prices i will give you an opportunity to get books at your own price or will be pleased to bring to your residence auy of the stock you may wish to ingpect 1 will be pleased to see any of my friends at mrs bergey'a vogt building w b dahrach ambler pa elects ' fhis hatimflly makes work go on in a spasmodic way for the supervisor cannot pick and choose his men but must take those who present themselves the bad with the good the strong with the weak the willing with the unwilling whereas if they were permitted to collect the taxes in cash he could then lay out his work on a more economical basis employ those only who were willing to give a fair day's work for a fair wage choosing of course as much as possible those who resided in his own district doubtless we have nil been impressed when coming on the supervisors at work with their men on the public roads by the leisure ly manner in which the work was be ing done we often question whether these men if at work in their own fields work quite so slowly ; whether if that is their practise they are ablo to make both ends meet it lias been sug gested that one reason why the super visor has been so lenient is tbat it would be injudicious to exact too much for fear that by arousing any antagon ism he might lose votes at the next epring election this is another reason for extending the time of the supervis or holding office a man elected to the position of su pervisor is chosen to look after the pro perty of the township and if he hires men or takes men to work out their taxes which is the same thing and al lows them to loaf he is betraying the trust the township has put in him it has always seemed a useless waste of public money to put down wooden culverts on the public roads the frost raises them so that they soon become a danger to life and limb and they last but a short time iron pipe costs a bit more in the beginning but is practical ly everlasting and is therefore by far the most economical personally i ana not in favor of the indiscriminate use of the plow and scraper in certain localities the soil is unfitted for this method of treatment in others a judicious use is beneficial i maintain that thousands of dollars could be saved annually if landowners and renters would follow out the law in regard to keeping the grass and weeds cut on their banks and burn or cart away the lubbisb which if allowed to remain will fill up the gutters and start washouts in the public roads also by trimming up all low branches on trees overhanging highways which otherwise drag off hay and fodder and so cause a stoppage in the gutters if when a farmer sees a nearby culvert clogged during a heavy rain he were to open it he would probably remove the cause of a bad waehout and thereby save himself annoyance and public money macadamizing roads i a very costly proceeding aud with the small amount of etith ut the disposal of the supervis or under the present inadequate law and the low tax rate is not to be thought of but a little stone here and there in the worst place will mend matters greatly aud will not wuah down stream with jed iwm'tbe gord"y liotise on the pavisvillfrroad no case of the disease having developed among any of the people who were restrained of their liberty formaldehyde gas was used for disinfecting the individuals and prem ises both at the gordy and the koons bouses at the latter place the quaran tine will soon be lifted while ou8 drast's butcher wagon was being loaded at the station on wed nesday the horse took fright ran into george titlow's yard and around the house s'opping within a few feet of front wall the only damage done was th breaking of shrubbery in mr tit low's yard the union traction company had their trolley sweeper and plow in use last thursday the first time this season edward gilbert returned front dela ware where he has been employed by the newport company samuel b webster gave up bis posi tion as motorman and will work in the city the old maids club comprised of eight girls was entertained last week by miss nellie dutton the club is en gaged ia making an autograph quilt which will contain many names at 10 cents each the proceeds to be given to the church the february meeting will be held at the home of harding harry the inmates of the koons residence which is quarantined crawled out on the roof one day hut week and placed an american flag on the peak all hands are well in the house and are trying to onjsy themselves squire goentner held george hart in the sum of 500 bail for securing money under false pretenses being unable to furnish surety he was sent to jail mr golden weddlnc and mrs aaron payne i . - - w est point celebrated their golden wedding anniversary jan 25 the event mark ing so years of happy married life was made unusually interesting by the fact that among the guests were represented five generations mr payne's father stephen payne of ambler who ia now in bis list year represented the first generation and leon the four-year old son of mr and mrs william lewis of north wales represented the fifth gen eration in the parlor was an arch form ed of plants and flags under which the bride aid groom of 50 years sat when a party representing gold diggers enter ed the room wheeling a wheelbarrow on which was a bag of gold coins the uiftt of 10 children which was presented to mr and mrs payne by their son-in-law william case with a few well chosen remarks a large crayon photograph of all the children handsomely framed was also a surprise gift guests to the number of about 50 were present mr and mrs payne moved to west phila delphia about six yearn ago for 32 yean mr payne was in the employ of the old union horse car line phila delphia sliriiik as a driver and retiring as u superintendent j state legislature was the next speaker he prefaced his remarks by stating that saving banks were first established in london in 1790 and that it was net till 1831 that the first building association was organized in frankfort by a gfpqp of english weavers both of these or ganizations are now familiar institu tions to all they have in many cases been responsible for the habit of thrift which abounds he said he could dis tinguish by the character of the homes if a certain town was inhabits ted by people active in building associations and especially in buying property he though one should keep within a safe limit take advantage of the little things and do what you can not what you would like to do but cannot afford to undertake he thought a postal sav ings system with the united states gov ernment at its back would be preferable to the building association hut as postal savings banks nave not as yet been estab lished he urged his hearers to stand by the building association and especially the home society joseph h paist president of the biiildinu & loan association league of pennsylvania paid a tribute to the ambler society as a very well managed one and urged all to take some shares of stock even though the etart be very small he spoke of the work of his league in preventing adverse and dan gerous legislation at harrisburg through the many plans to place a heavy tax on societies he also informed his hear ers of the efforts of the national league at the time of the enactment of the general revenue bill under cleveland's administration how the league at last succeeded in obtaining a decision on the income tax clause which saved hundreds of thousands of dollars to the societies throughout the union the same thing was true during the spanish war wben the battle was fought and won over again he thinks that the time ia at hand when the rate of inter est should be decreased as money can be borrowed on good mortgages for 4 per cent whereas the societies pay 6 and 7 j h gamble treasurer of the build ing association leagues of america and pennsylvania oiuphacized the fact that a building association is a compulsory saving und that at the expiration of tho time for which the stock is taken a fund has accumulated through small monthly payments to enable the holder to go into business he quoted from big own experience in acquiring pro perty through these societies and saving money through them that would other wise have been expended and probably thrown away j e happold one uf the executive board of the state league said the re mark had been madu that a few build ing associations fail it in true they do but not one fails to 10 national banku and they are considered solid if they are managed by local men of known ability they are safe an association in number of friends last thursday even ing the guests were misses ethel prince hetty bodenbaugh florence and edwin hoffner geroge renninger carroll brooke and harry e roden baueh an organization to be known as the glenside republican association of cheltenahm township west first district was organized here for the bet terment of politics in this community george donahue was appointed chair man of the meeting after which the following officers were elected : presi dent robert f campbell son of ex judge campbell ; vice president frank ramsey secretary george donahue treasurer george renninger executive committee d b flower john m wil son john stout john godfrey samuel cmuly stiles fesmire william wilson alfred fesmire george renoinger robert f campbell stacy carroll louis weber frank ramsey joseph jones william mccann charles whittock christopher huber john lewis and frank ramsey jr the association was organized'at the residence of robert f campbell on willow grove pike george donahue d b flower and louis weber were appointed a commit tee to draw up the constitution and laws governing the association blue bell to mrs christian seible has moved 1815 marston street philadelphia the third of a series of snort organ recitals will be given in the first pres byterian church norristown on sun day evening at 7.15 by mr walter de prefontaine mrs j brock morgan of oakland cal.,will sing a solo miss mcdowell was on the sick list last week her school being closed for several davs rar nod valuable animal a despatch from a nearby town sa)s station agent j s rothenbergur of oreland received on tuesday from a friend in manila a pygoloogoobeftirno noochupenberg a raie and valuable specimen of the elephant this in the first of its kind ever brought to ameri ca rothenberger has it heavily chain ed and with pride exhibits it to hia friends a large number of railro ad men have viewed it with interest nuhwenkitllle i«u heavy dote jacob simmons of schwenksville who was arrested there sometime ago on a charge of stealing about 5uo from the safe of john wanarnaker's warehouse at newark n j was tried last week and wan sentenced to live years in the aluto prison at trenton lie denied every thing on the stand and after he was convicted be made a confession which added perjury to his crime the trial " two days x . l .